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Good evening and welcome to the Capitol report on entity television. I'm Steve Lance and coming up a Fundraising showdown former President Trump aiming to be President Biden's record money haul with an even more lucrative fundraiser in Biden now sending a new message to Nikki Haley voters a Wall Street Journal journalist in a Russian prison now for over a year Entities Jack Bradley has the latest on his condition and how the State Department is responding The largest crane in the Northeast has arrived in Baltimore this to assist with the clearing of debris After Tuesday's bridge collapse the next hurdle on the road to recovery Might be in Congress our Washington correspondent. Louise Martinez has a report And former President Trump now seeking to outdo President Biden who raked in a record 26 million dollars at a Manhattan fundraiser Comes as Biden trying to showcase his cash edge over Trump and court Nikki Haley voters Joining us now live is entities White House correspondent Iris Tao. Good evening Iris So what's the latest in the Biden Trump duel? Good evening to you Steve. So the two men right now are in a fundraising competition Former President Trump's campaign is planning to raise over 33 million dollars at a fundraiser next week in Palm Beach, Florida And does after President Biden just last night raised a stunning 26 million dollars by teaming up with his predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and at a star-stunned fundraiser here in New York City And the three Democratic presidents took turn to criticize Trump to a crowd of 5,000 donors while the Biden and taking a Trump over his physical fitness watch My question to you sir, can voters trust a presidential candidate who has not won a single Trump International Golf Club trophy at long last sir. Have you no chip shot? Well, look I'd be happy to play I told them this before when he came into the Oval when he was being before he got sworn in I said I'll give you three strokes if you carry your own bag Trump meanwhile has been claiming that he's more fit than Biden has been questioning Biden's mental acuity Biden who's 81 also try to defend his age seeing at the fundraiser last night that age brings him wisdom Meanwhile, Trump was also in New York last night on Thursday to mourn a fallen NYPD officer And all this is as on Friday Biden's campaign sent out this ad and trying to court Nikki Haley's voters and also target Trump Here's a part of it He is she's gone. Hey, why is all that many never Trumpers anymore? How do you bring these Nikki Haley voters? Meanwhile Trump will be in the battleground state of Michigan next Tuesday to make a speech about quote Biden's border bloodbath Entities iris tower reporting live for us. Thank you Iris And today marking one year since a reporter with the Wall Street Journal Was jailed in Moscow, Russia It's a US citizen who's been charged with espionage and he's Jack Bradley joins us now live from the State Department Jack good evening. What is the latest on this? Good evening Steve. Well, we have Evan Grishka Vich right here on the Wall Street Journal He was the whole front page was dedicated to him as this year marks the first year today marks the first year of him being detained for a year in Moscow now recent video shows him Doing quite well actually in good spirits rather behind a defendant's box in Moscow. Take a look He's stuck in a tiny cell for the whole day and night. He's only has one other cellmate he can communicate with He has one hour daily can you walk outside in a tiny courtyard of the cell but despite the incredibly difficult Circumstances Evan remains strong. He remains hopeful for his release. He's not broken neither physically or mentally. He's in good spirits Now Grishka Vich is the first American reporter to be arrested on espionage charges in Moscow and in Russia since 1986 Now he's denied all of these charges and the American government has declared his sentencing and detainment wrongful He's wrongfully detained Secretary of State Antony Blinken today He said that in a statement to date Russia has provided no evidence of wrongdoing and people are not bargaining chips Russia should end its practice of arbitrarily detaining individuals for political leverage now Blinken also announced today That he will be working on sanctioning Hong Kong officials Who are hand-picked by the Chinese Communist Party? He said in a statement There's an intensifying repression and ongoing crackdown by the Chinese regime and Hong Kong authorities on civil society media and dissenting voices Including through the issuance of bounties and arrest warrants for more than a dozen pro-democracy activists living outside Hong Kong These sanctions are in response to the national security law, which has been cracking down on human rights in Hong Kong Notably Jimmy Lai The founder of Apple Daily. It's a Hong Kong media outlet He's been arrested and detained for four years in Hong Kong since the national security law was announced As these sanctions come out, we'll keep you updated Steve back to you Antony's Jack Bradley reporting live from the State Department in Washington. Thanks Jack a Heavy crane able to lift a thousand tons will help clear the wreckage in Baltimore Harbor in the aftermath of this week's bridge collapse Experts expect the cost to restore the waterway and rebuild the bridge could surpass two billion dollars Our Washington correspondent Louise Martinez has more on this story the largest crane in the Northeast US arrived in Baltimore today to assist in removing over 4,000 pounds of debris hanging over the container ship dolly and over the Baltimore Harbor demolition experts believe they can open a single-lane channel in Approximately a month by clearing the debris in the 1,200 foot area in between the two main pillars of the bridge The Port of Baltimore is the ninth busiest port in the United States and the second largest exporter of coal around 220 million dollars worth of goods transit through the port every day It employs over 8,000 people with a payroll of over 2 million dollars daily The port is the largest importer and exporter of cars and light trucks in the country with more than 850 thousand vehicles Moving through every year government officials have stressed that the cleaning and recovery of the waterway is a matter of national concern The disaster will affect the supply chains of the Northeast and businesses dependent on them But collectively as a supply chain, we should find alternative ports whether in New York, Virginia Charleston there are other opportunities for us to you know Enable the logistical part of this to get back into the supply chains According to experts the operation will cost over a billion dollars and Congress will most likely have to intervene to facilitate the funds I've heard from colleagues all over the country County executives and mayors Who are small large rural urban Democrat Republican, you know But for the grace of God this could be any of us and I hope this doesn't become something that's partisan and logged up I'd like to see Congress move quickly the Department of Transportation's emergency relief program outlines a plan in which the federal government will pay for 90% of the reconstruction costs and the state of Maryland the remaining 10% that fund only has 950 million dollars next week when President Biden visits the port of Baltimore It is expected that he will ask Congress to facilitate more funds Reporting from Washington DC. He's a lot of Martinez NTD news Does the Baltimore Bridge collapse raise national security concerns or should it join Tiffany mayor on NTD evening news at 6 p.m. Eastern for analysis and insight into what exactly went wrong And coming up, why should the US be defending Taiwan against Chinese communist aggression? Our next guest will explain the island's geographical and strategic Importance and is China deploying fentanyl into the United States as a weapon of mass destruction with military-like Precision author of the new book blood money Peter Schweitzer will join us to discuss that more when we return When I drink it the first thing was it I feel the warmth in my in my tummy It's kind of like gently radiating out to know a kind of a very comforting warm and it was really good Actually, I felt Much better. I did feel actually an effect and I find that it is actually better when I take it Regularly, it's actually steamed and dried nine times. 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Joining me now to assess is Victoria Coates former deputy national security advisor to President Trump and vice president of the Heritage Foundations Institute for national security and foreign policy Victoria Coates, thank you so much for joining Of course good to be with you, of course, Victoria a Heritage Foundation president. Dr. Kevin Roberts just returning from a trip to Taiwan He gave a talk at Heritage yesterday saying that Taiwan was one of a handful of countries that if it were attacked Would directly affect how? Americans lives would be affected the very next day essentially Why is Taiwan such a unique United States ally? It really is a fascinating case Steve and we've just completed at dr Roberts direction what we call the American case for Taiwan his question to us Sort of early last fall as the Davis Institute for National Security is is why should we defend Taiwan? Why would we potentially put United States treasure and even blood at risk for a country so far away? And so that was really the purpose of both the it the report that we've done and the results of the trip that he and I took in February was to see what it is about Taiwan. That's unique and as the report documents first of all, it's geography Taiwan does not exist in any way in a vacuum and is part of that first island chain If you look at a map that runs right up to Japan Also very closely situated vis-a-vis the Philippines and we have treaty alliances with both the Philippines and Japan So that it creates a direct interest and then there's the achievements that Taiwan has accomplished over its many decades of existence, especially since democratization in the 80s and 90s and Taiwan is the number four country on heritage's index of economic freedom They've made extraordinary advances in terms of both the semiconductor chips that most people know about We can talk about that a little bit more if you want. I now know enough to be dangerous but also in Manufacturing and there are a series of other activities that are unique to the island And so, you know, we concluded in the report as dr. Roberts said yesterday that yes indeed The defense of Taiwan is in the vital national security interests of the United States So what policies could or should the United States be enacting to deter China from their regional? Ambitions in the Indo-Pacific I Would say you know that we we actually just need to make good on our commitments And the other nice thing about Taiwan is you know, they are a full-paying customer. They're not asking for aid They're asking for expedited sales And so get you know And but we're hugely in arrears and delivering the things that they want to buy and so I think working with Congress So we can facilitate those foreign military sales make it clear that we are going to expedite the sales to the Philippines to Japan and to Taiwan itself so that these good treaty allies as I said Who are expanding their defense budgets Japan? Most notably can have the materials to defend themselves that they need and make it clear to China that we're not just going to cede The island to them make them think again literally now bringing it back home To the CCP's boldness on US soil We've been covering the New York based Shen Yun performing arts whose tagline is China before communism If you haven't seen the billboards throughout the country Which has come under a string of attacks from tire slashed on their tour buses to multiple bomb threats Over the past two weeks at theaters and their training Facilities, how bold is the Chinese Communist Party? And what should we be doing to prevent the CCP's? Transnational repression from spreading in our own country Yeah, I mean the Shen Yun is a lovely Chinese ballet company traditional Chinese We supported them when I was working for Senator Cruz and in the Senate They perform in Houston every year and we always wrote a letter of support because it really is a wonderful expression of traditional Chinese culture, which is what Mao set out to destroy and So they have they have persisted in this art form, which as I said is lovely and you know what we're seeing now of the attacks on them on US soil is how threatening the CCP sees this representation of Chinese culture before Mao before the revolution and I you know I have to be concerned, you know with how bold China is being in the United States Chinese nationals are now the nut by percentage the number two number of illegals after Colombia coming across the southern border Who knows if those some of those people have been directed to carry out these attacks, you know? And so you you keep wondering what kind of activities the Chinese coming in Illegally are directed to do I mean this is might be exactly what they've been told to do to to harass this group into terror Terrorize them into stopping performances Victoria Coates really appreciate your perspective. Thank you. Of course. Thank you The Chinese Communist Party also has a military style strategy to harm and disintegrate American society it's according to my next guest who wrote the book blood money after investigating how China Deploys deadly fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction joining me now to discuss his book is Peter Schweitzer Peter Schweitzer, thank you so much for joining Good to be with you. Thanks for having me. Of course Peter your book blood money details China's historical weaponization of drugs against the United States Tracing it back to the opium wars and culminating in the precision deployment of the lethal fentanyl, which we're seeing a crisis Throughout our country over the past many years now. Can you elaborate on the military like precision of this weaponization? Yeah, I think one of the big misnomers about fentanyl is that this is primarily an operation of the Mexican drug cartels They're in fact the junior partners Just look at every link in the chain the precursors, of course many people know come from China They arrive in the port of Manzanillo in Mexico That port is actually run by a Chinese company the precursors are then sent to a town in northern Mexico where 2,000 Chinese nationals help the drug cartels turn these precursors into the cocktail They then have to put them in pill form So what do they do they import at cost pill presses and pill molds from China? Once they actually have produced the pills the drug cartels now need secure communications to distribute this poison across America What do they use they use Chinese communication devices and apps because they know that China will not Share those communications with US law enforcement and then the final link in the chain is the money laundering process I used to be that the Mexican drug cartels laundered their money in Latin American banks Now they use Chinese state-owned banks and they often use Chinese students in the United States on education visas So this is a Chinese operation with support from the Mexican drug cartels Peter what if you could tell us what is the CCP's ultimate goal in in deploying? This fentanyl into the United States Well, it's part of what they call Disintegration warfare that was actually a book written on by that title in 2012 There was an earlier book called unrestricted warfare and both of these books have been embraced by a president G and the strategy basically says they want to fragment harm and disintegrate American society and drugs are a component of that There are other things that they are doing But they have had a lot of success in a terrible way in this area because of course fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for people in America under the age of 45 and it's deployed as a Sort of hidden weapon the vast majority of the people that are dying of fentanyl poisoning don't even know they're taking fentanyl They think they're taking a vitamin or an adderall So this is a weapon that is crim really crippling American society and costing us some of the our best and brightest Peter talk to us about tick-tock that social media application It came out of committee unanimously to You know ban it essentially And then there's been a little bit of a discussion about First Amendment. Where do you stand on? You know shifting tick-tocks ownership outside of China. It's a Chinese company That's essentially joined at the hip with the Chinese state. Let's remember that this all-important Algorithm that is so addictive and so effective in giving a target audiences What they want is not only a company secret the Chinese government actually declared it a state secret By dance the parent company for tick-tock does extensive joint research on artificial intelligence And other subjects with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, which is their spy agency It's the FBI the CIA and the NSA all rolled into one So this is not just a Chinese company It's a company that works hand in glove with the Chinese state and as I quote extensively in my book blood money They are quite open amongst themselves as how effective this tool is to manipulate young people in the West And to use it as a tool of propaganda one military official calls it the ultimate Trojan horse So I think for that reason it needs to be Sold this sale needs to be forced and I think the bill is a good one help us sort of distinguish between The Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party the Chinese Communist Party is guided by Marxism Leninism Karl Marx was not Chinese Vladimir men Lenin was not Chinese if you look at this from the Chinese perspective This is sort of a Western hateful ideology that was imposed on China by this small cadre of Revolutionaries like Chairman Mao who are educated by these Western outlets So no, there's a huge distinction between the CCP and the Chinese people In fact, the biggest victims of the CCP are actually the Chinese people themselves So that's a misdirection a misnomer And we ought to dismiss it and get back to the core issues here and not let them play this race car Peter Schweitzer with a very powerful new book blood money. Thank you so much for joining Thanks for having me And for around-the-clock original news coverage, please visit us at ntd.com and download our app And it's the NTD app at the App Store. And that's all we have for you this evening on the Capitol report Thank you so much for watching from the nation's capital in Washington DC. I'm Steve Lance. We wish you a very happy Easter We'll see you back here Monday